The Defense Department is gearing up for $450 billion worth of budget cuts over the next decade. The House Armed Services Committee’s panel on business challenges in the Defense Industry looked at how those cuts might reshape the defense industry.

Jack Gansler is director of the Center for Public Policy & Private Enterprise at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and former Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. He joins In Depth with Francis Rose with highlights of what he told the Armed Services Committee this morning.

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Francis Rose is the host of In Depth, which airs weekdays from 4-7 p.m. on 1500 AM in the Washington, DC metro area and online everywhere. Francis has covered all three branches of the federal government as a broadcast journalist since 1998. He joined Federal News Radio in 2006, and launched In Depth in 2008 as a daily show focused on connecting federal executives to the information they need to do their jobs better.